Scripted Detection of SMR Drives 0.5

[Basil Hendroff]

Basil Hendroff submitted a new resource:

Scripted Detection of SMR Drives - A bash script to detect WD SMR drives

TrueCommand has a built-in check for known WD SATA SMR drives on connected TrueNAS servers. However, if you don't use TrueCommand, you can use this bash script to help you identify culprit drives.

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[Basil Hendroff]

Basil Hendroff updated Scripted Detection of SMR Drives with a new update entry:

Now detecting Seagate SMR drives

The database has been expanded to include known Seagate SMR drives. The script now checks for known WD and Seagate SMR drives.

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[Basil Hendroff]

I don't use Toshiba or HGST drives, however, if anyone does and would like to see these detected, please PM me the tmp.json from the command below:

Code:

midclt call disk.query | jq -S '.[] | {devname: .devname, model: .model, serial: .serial}' > tmp.json

Please don't post this information in the discussion area here as it includes serial numbers, which you may not want publicly displayed.

 

[Basil Hendroff]

If you have a WD or Seagate drive that you know is an SMR drive, but the script hasn't detected it, there's one of three possibilities:

1. My primary reference for the database has been @Yorick's resource List of known SMR drives. If the drive is not listed there, let him know in a post in the discussion area for the resource. I'll see it and update the script database accordingly.
2. If the drive is in the list, then I've somehow forgotten to include it in the script database. Let me know in the discussion area here.
3. You're using a shucked drive. Let me know the model number in the discussion area and I'll include it in the script database.

Conversely, if the script is incorrectly flagging a CMR drive as an SMR drive, let me know in the discussion area here and I'll look into it.

 

[Basil Hendroff]

Basil Hendroff updated Scripted Detection of SMR Drives with a new update entry:

Now detecting Toshiba SMR drives

The database has been expanded to include known Toshiba SMR drives. The script now checks for known WD, Seagate and Toshiba SMR drives.

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[Basil Hendroff]

Basil Hendroff updated Scripted Detection of SMR Drives with a new update entry:

Now detecting HGST 'Ultrastar' SMR drives

Hitachi Global Storage Technology (HGST) branded products, in particular Ultrastar, are now marketed under the Western Digital brand.

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[Basil Hendroff]

Basil Hendroff updated Scripted Detection of SMR Drives with a new update entry:

Now checking portable/external SMR drives

The script database has been expanded to include a broad range of portable/external SMR drives from Western Digital, Seagate and Toshiba. It's possible these drives have been shucked and then deployed in a TrueNAS server.

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